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Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

Porsha Williams + the ACLU's ReNika Moore

Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

WarnerMedia Podcast Network

News

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Porsha Williams, star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta and granddaughter of civil rights legend Rev. Hosea Williams, talks about why she put her body on the line to demand justice for Breonna Taylor. ACLU Racial Justice Program Director ReNika Moore breaks down the immediate and long-term agenda for racial equity after Trump. And Kamau tries to explain Garth Brooks to Hari.

Find our guests:
ReNika Moore (@ReNikaMoore) https://www.aclu.org/news/by/renika-moore/
Porsha Williams (@Porsha4Real) https://www.porshawilliams.com

Mentioned on the show:
ACLU Petition: Divest from the police. Invest in Black and Brown communities. https://bit.ly/36iwZIG
ACLU Action: Tell Congress we Need Reparations for Slavery now. https://bit.ly/3abdsLr
Until Freedom https://untilfreedom.com
Breonna Taylor's mom Tamika Palmer (@TamikaPalmer)

Find us:
Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) http://www.harikondabolu.com/
W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) http://www.wkamaubell.com/

Find the show:
Twitter (@PoliticReActive)
Facebook (@politicallyreactive)
Instagram (@politicallyreactive)

Produced by Topic Studios. Part of the WarnerMedia Podcast Network.
Full credits. www.PoliticallyReActive.com

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0:00.0

When I was a kid watching Eddie Murphy on Silent Live, I was like, one day I hope to be the

0:04.7

racial justice ambassador for the ACLU. From Topic Studios and Warner Media Podcast Network,

0:11.5

this is politically reactive. I'm Debbie Kamal-Bell. And I'm future mango juice spokesperson

0:17.2

Harry Kundebolo. We all have dreams, baby. Once again, we're two friends and

0:22.4

sand of comics and dads trying to make sense of American politics. Fortunately, we get some help

0:27.6

from people who are on the front lines defending and reinventing our democracy.

0:32.0

And sometimes we get some help from place you wouldn't expect. We look all think about the fact

0:36.3

that when you're on reality TV, you have this big responsibility. Portia Williams is a big name

0:41.2

in reality TV. She's one of the stars of the real housewives of Atlanta. A show I've never seen,

0:46.7

but I hear it has a fair dose of pettiness and backstabbery and a soup song of Tom Fulery.

0:52.6

Is there some Tom Fulery in there too? There's a little Tom Fulery.

0:55.8

Portia is also the granddaughter of the Reverend Hosea Williams, a civil rights leader and a friend

1:02.1

and collaborator of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And in 2020, Portia traveled from her home in Atlanta,

1:08.2

took a tucky to demand justice from Breonna Taylor, as she took her Atlanta with her.

1:13.2

I've got some gangster. I'm going to go hard for you. And to me, this really no limit if I feel like

1:18.4

what I'm fighting for is right. We talk about her late-night self-education in politics in American

1:23.6

history. We talk about civil disobedience and with the courts, we talk about her grandfather.

1:28.0

A lot of time when I was out there and you know, based in danger and etc. I would think about

1:33.2

him and I knew and I would try to put myself in this mindset and just be strong and keep moving

1:38.8

forward for the purpose. The purpose is justice and before we get into our conversation with

1:42.8

Portia Williams, we'll hear from the ACLU's Renika Moore about the racial justice agenda of the

1:48.0

ACLU as the Biden-Hair Administration gets going. That includes rolling back a lot of Donald Trump's

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